My name is Cary Clarke and I am a middle school ELL teacher, musician and non-profit director (PDX Pop Now!) in Portland, OR. Like many others, I am in awe of the possibilities that your work presents for closing the education and technology gap in the developing world. Please let me know if there is some way in which I can help.

I am in the process of developing an activity (a program) to help pre-literate kids learn about quantities (numbers). I would VERY much appreciate a chance to bounce what I am trying to do off of a teacher.

The opportunity I am working on right now has to do with the first stages of mastering the dexterity of writing numbers and the conceptual meaning of numbers.

If you can help I would appreciate it. If not could you see if you could find someone that could.

Thanks.

Kent

P.S. It would be nice if a resource of elementary school teachers could form for people like me to get feedback about activities we are working on.

On Friday 28 December 2007 20:30:08 Clarke Cary wrote:

Hello-

My name is Cary Clarke and I am a middle school ELL teacher, musicianand non-profit director (PDX Pop Now!) in Portland, OR. Like manyothers, I am in awe of the possibilities that your work presents forclosing the education and technology gap in the developing world.Please let me know if there is some way in which I can help.

I am in the process of developing an activity (a program) to help pre-literatekids learn about quantities (numbers). I would VERY much appreciate a chanceto bounce what I am trying to do off of a teacher.

The opportunity I am working on right now has to do with the first stages ofmastering the dexterity of writing numbers and the conceptual meaning ofnumbers.

If you can help I would appreciate it. If not could you see if you could findsomeone that could.

Thanks.

Kent

P.S. It would be nice if a resource of elementary school teachers could formfor people like me to get feedback about activities we are working on.

On Friday 28 December 2007 20:30:08 Clarke Cary wrote:

Hello-

My name is Cary Clarke and I am a middle school ELL teacher, musicianand non-profit director (PDX Pop Now!) in Portland, OR. Like manyothers, I am in awe of the possibilities that your work presents forclosing the education and technology gap in the developing world.Please let me know if there is some way in which I can help.

They are all released under the BSD license so pls take the time toimprove upon them, change them, or just create something completely newand better.

We are doing virtually all of our activity development with EToysbecause it is simple, powerful, and accessible to non-technical people.We have two teachers on our team and they are heavily involved inactivity development but we could always use more contributions fromteachers.

We would really love to see teachers be able to create learningactivities on their own. The long term goal of activity of developmentshould be that educators can quickly develop activities that meet theirown needs. Squeak and EToys seem to be the right tool for this.